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The 30 nominees for South Africa’s top restaurants

The nominees for the highly anticipated annual Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards have just been announced. To shine the spotlight on even more restaurants this year, the list of contenders for these coveted awards has been increased from 20 to 30 nominees.

Ascend the glass-fronted lift to this fine-dining small-plates restaurant headed by Luke Dale-Roberts and Frederico Dias, and you’ll be rewarded with myriad surprising but perfectly formed flavours. The view out over Woodstock and the city is pretty incredible, too.

This is Kobus van der Merwe’s first nomination for the Top 10 list, although the chef has won the Eat Out Nederburg Rising Star award in 2014. There’s simply nothing like his menu, much of which is foraged from the surrounding dunes.

A dish from Wolfgat. Photo supplied.

The Top 10 restaurants will be revealed on Sunday 19 November 2017 at the awards ceremony at GrandWest in Cape Town, after a countdown from positions 20 to 11.

This year for the first time, the above chefs will also vote for the Eat Out Graham Beck Chefs’ Chef Award. Find out more here.

The criteria to determine the nominees and winners can be viewed here.